From Zero · A social enterprise
Where everything feeds itself · Humans. Animals. Plants.
A farm that wastes nothing.
From Zero is Umair Jaliawala's social enterprise — an integrated, zero-waste farm where livestock, crops and orchards feed one another in a single closed loop. Abundance, grown from the ground up.
The idea
Zero waste isn't a slogan — it's the whole design.
Most farms take from the land and throw the rest away. From Zero is built the other way around: every output becomes another system's input, so almost nothing leaves as waste.
It's regenerative farming run as a social enterprise — a working model of how food, soil and livelihoods can grow together, designed to be learned from and rebuilt anywhere.
Integrated by design
Livestock, compost, soil, crops and water work as one connected system — not separate plots.
Zero waste
Manure feeds the soil, scraps feed the animals, trimmings feed the compost. The loop closes.
From zero
Started with almost nothing and grown, season by season, into a full working farm.
Built to be copied
A blueprint any community can adapt — the point is to spread the model, not to stay small.
The journey
From one small plot to a working farm.
01 · The pilot
An incubator the size of an idea
Bari Imam · near Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad
From Zero began as a mini farm and incubator on a small plot — proof that an integrated, zero-waste loop could actually work on real land.
02 · The farm
A full-scale integrated farm
Chak Shahzad, Islamabad
Today it's a full working farm — livestock, vegetables, fruit orchards and plant nurseries, all connected in one regenerative cycle.
The system
One closed loop
Follow anything on the farm and it comes back around. This is what "zero waste" looks like in practice.
- 1
Livestock
Cattle, goats & poultry
- 2
Manure & compost
Waste becomes fertiliser
- 3
Living soil
Rebuilt every season
- 4
Vegetables
Grown in that soil
- 5
Fruit orchards
Trees anchor the land
- 6
Harvest & kitchen
Scraps return to feed
- …back to the start
On the farm
What grows at From Zero
Livestock
Cattle, goats and poultry, raised as part of the cycle — the engine of the compost that feeds everything else.
Vegetables
Seasonal, soil-grown produce from beds fed by the farm's own compost.
Fruit orchards
Trees that stabilise the soil, shade the land and yield year after year.
Plants & nurseries
Green cover and saplings raised on-site to keep the farm — and others — growing.
Get involved
Grow the model with us.
Whether you'd like to visit, partner, or build a From Zero of your own — start a conversation.